A feeling of belonging : Asian American women's public culture, 1930-1960

by: Lim, Shirley Jennifer, 1968-

Publication date: 2006

Topics: Asian American women -- Social life and customs -- 20th century, Asian Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- History -- 20th century, Young women -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century, Single women -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century, Leisure -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies, Asian Americans -- Cultural assimilation, Leisure, Manners and customs, Popular culture, Single women -- Social life and customs, Young women -- Social life and customs, United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945, United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970, United States

Publisher: New York : New York University Press

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; digital-library-of-japanese-american-incarceration; americana

Digitizing sponsor: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program

Contributor: Densho

Language: English

1 online resource (ix, 241 pages) :

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-230) and index

A feeling of belonging : Chi Alpha Delta, 1928-1941 -- I protest : Anna May Wong and the performance of modernity -- Short-cut to glamour : popular culture in a consumer society -- Contested beauty : Asian American beauty culture during the Cold War -- Riding the crest of an Oriental wave : foreign-born Asian "beauty."

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